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Umpteen United Kingdom1570 Posts January 12 2016 18:46 GMT #1 A few days ago, my Windows 10 laptop abruptly started taking ~10 seconds longer to go from the 'Yep, you've swiped your fingerprint' screen to the desktop. I haven't installed anything, updated anything, changed anything. It seemed to coincide with one of those unsettling Windows 10 updates that presents you with a screen from a bad sci-fi movie: "Hi..." "All your stuff is totally where it should be. And your bank account is just how you left it, too." Anyone else had this and managed to unpick what's causing it? Thanks!

Thaniri 1264 Posts January 12 2016 18:57 GMT #2 I've read this post a couple of times and dont't understand what you're saying. Is it the boot with no prompt the part that is bothering you? Or was there literally text as you described on the fingerprint scanner and home screen? Is there a 0% chance that it was not in sleep or no-one pressed the button to turn it on? In any case just restore to an earlier point, and run ccleaner/malwarebytes or something else. Make sure java and flash are updated blah blah blah. Or just format.

Awesomedrifter Canada62 Posts January 12 2016 20:29 GMT #3 I think his start up is taking longer, like he's booting more programs on start up. kinda hard to understand, maybe hes fucked up or english isn't his first language

SoSexy Italy3725 Posts January 13 2016 00:14 GMT #4 I feel you bro, my laptop took exactly 10 seconds to boot up with windows 8...then I decided to upgrade to 10 and it takes at least 30 :/

Umpteen United Kingdom1570 Posts January 13 2016 09:47 GMT #5 Ok, I'll try again without the failed attempt at levity: A few days ago, my installation of Windows 10 (actually both installations on both my machines) seemed to install an update of some sort. I deduce there was an update because when I booted them up I got extra screens in the startup process (like the ones you get when you first upgrade to Windows 10): This was followed by a similar screen saying something along the lines of: "Windows has updated, all your files are still where you left them". Since that day, Windows 10 is taking around 10 seconds longer to reach the desktop after I swipe my fingerprint or enter my password on the lock screen. On both machines. It used to take perhaps 3 seconds, now it takes around 13. I did not manually install any new software (and even if I had, it wouldn't have been the same software on both machines as one is my personal laptop and the other is my work desktop). I did not update any drivers (and again, two completely different machines with different hardware). All I'm trying to do is figure out what Windows has done that's slowed the boot so significantly. With hindsight I should have stored a boot log from when the machines were behaving themselves, but it's a bit late for that now. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks.

TelecoM United States10861 Posts January 13 2016 17:04 GMT #6 The best thing I ever did was go into Settings -> Notifications -> Show me tips about windows (OFF) and might as well turn everything else off in the notification page as well, after I did that it helped my performance a lot! Try it! It seemed to help a lot of other Win10 users too :D

Deathstar 9150 Posts January 13 2016 19:58 GMT #7 Yeah I'm not messing with Windows 10 rofl

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